Pure Contrast

This plugin allows you to add or remove contrast to your image without affecting its true saturation.

Premiere Pro version supports 8 and 32 bits (Maximum Bit Depth). In After Effects only 8 and 16 bit depth is supported so far.

CI Pure Contrast gives you a lot of possibilities to manipulate the contrast of your image separate from the saturation.

Supported software

Adobe Premiere Pro, versions CS5, CS5.5, CS6 and CC.

Adobe After Effects, versions CS5, CS5.5, CS6 and CC.

Supported OS

Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8

Mac OS X 10.6.x,10.7.x, 10.8.x

Installation

The plugin comes without an installer. Please unpack the downloaded file and copy it to Adobe’s Media Core folder, so that both applications will see them.

The folder can be found on Windows here:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\CS6\MediaCore

and on OS X here:

MacHD/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/CS6/MediaCore

Substitute CS6 for your current version or 7.0 for Creative Cloud. If you have multiple versions installed, simply copy the plugin to each of the folders. Note, that on OS X this is the Library folder present in the root directory of your system drive, not the Library in your user directory.

The plugin will show up as “CI Pure Contrast” under “Creative Impatience” group of effects.

Known issues

None at present. Feel free to report them in the comments.

Road map

Below are the proposed features that could be added to this plugin in the future. If you are interested in further development, please donate. Feel free to propose additional features in the comments. The change log is also available.

Judging by the frequency of similar reports, this issue should be resolved by making sure your install paths are correct. It’s easy to mistake the local (user) Library folder with the global Library folder on the root drive on OS X.